The State and Revolution

The State and Revolution

Cover of a Russian first edition
Author	Vladimir Lenin
Original title	Государство и революция
Country	Russian Republic
Language	Russian
Genre	Nonfiction
Publication date	1917
Media type	Print

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The State and the Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (Russian: Государство и революция. Учение марксизма о государстве и задачи пролетариата в революции, romanized: Gosudarstvo i revolyutsiya. Ucheniye marksizma o gosudarstve i zadachi proletariata v revolyutsii) is a book written by Vladimir Lenin and published in 1917 which describes his views on the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.